NDLI: Decoupling Dynamic Test Generation from Specific Operating System Details Based on Whole System Virtual Machine

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Gen Li Kai Lu Ying Zhang Xicheng Lu Wei Zhang
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Dynamic test generation approach is becoming increasingly popular to find security vulnerabilities in software. However, such existing approaches and tools are not retargetable and can only find vulnerabilities over a specific OS because the execution trace is totally OS-independently recorded in these tools. This paper presents a new dynamic test generation technique and a tool, ReTBLDTG, short for ReTargetable Dynamic Test Generation, that implements this technique. Unlike other such techniques that can only operate over a specific OS, ReTBLDTG can process the programs over any OSes. ReTBLDTG is based on the whole system virtual machine that provides OS-independent and fast concrete execution of the target program. And which thread the executing instruction belongs to is OS-independently identified by analyzing the registers' value and hardware events over the virtual machine. Thus, the execution trace is recorded, without knowing the internal structure of the guest OS. We have implemented our ReTBLDTG and used it to automatically find the six known bugs in the six benchmarks over Linux and Windows. Our results indicate that our ReTBLDTG can operate on any OSes; and ReTBLDTG can effectively find bugs located deep within large applications over any OSes.
Starting Page	649
Ending Page	654
File Size	212642
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769539324
e-ISBN	9781424454679
DOI	10.1109/FCST.2009.55
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-12-17
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software testing System testing Operating systems Linux Computer bugs Virtual machining Concrete Hardware Security Yarn
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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